The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life
and Mission of the Church

This Bulletin is only a working instrument for
the press.
Translations are not official.

English Edition

31 - 22.10.2005

SUMMARY

♦ FINAL LIST OF PROPOSITIONS

♦ FINAL LIST OF PROPOSITIONS

The Final List of Propositions of the Eleventh Ordinary General
Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, official text in Latin, the object
of personal voting by the Synodal Fathers, is destined to the
Supreme pontiff, to whom it will be duly handed in. This text, by
its nature, is reserved and will not be published to respect the
consultive characteristic of the Synod Assize. This text, in fact,
has a propositional characteristic.

Through the benevolent decision of the Holy Father Benedict XVI, on
this occasion, he allows a version in the Italian language,
provisory, officious and not official, done by the Secretary General
of the Synod of Bishops, which will be published in the Holy See
Press Office Bulletin.

As concerns this, we would like to point out, once again, that the
Propositions are a moment during a long process of the Synod, open
to eventual promulgation in a pontifical document. This does not
exhaust the richness of the contributions in the Lineamenta, the
Instrumentum laboris, the Disceptatio in aula, which began with the
Relatio ante Disceptationem and which ended with the Relatio post
Disceptationem and the Message (Nuntius). The task of the Working
Groups allowed the elaboration of the Synodal consensus, in a
climate of intense episcopal communion cum Petro and sub Petro
through mutual listening, even in the immediacy of spontaneous
discussion.

The unofficial version in Italian was published in the
plurilingual and Italian editions of the Bulletin.